Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Informe / Comunicado de prensa

Exploited for profit, failed by governments : Indonesian migrant domestic workers trafficked to Hong Kong

Fecha

2013

Autores

Amnesty International, International Secretariat

Resumen

The workers are not tied to a single employer. However, if they leave their employer, they only have 2 weeks to find another, or else they fall under irregular status, a policy which acts similar to employer bondage.

Number of pages

146

Institución responsable

Amnesty International

Lugar de publicación

London

Notas

**: The inability to find new employment in the two-week time limit leaves migrant domestic
workers with little choice but to remain in abusive and/or exploitative conditions or accept
jobs with unfavourable work conditions in order to maintain their immigration status.
In 2006, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,370 raised
concerns that the Two-Week Rule pushes “foreign domestic workers to accept employment
which may have unfair or abusive terms and conditions in order to stay in Hong Kong” ...In addition to increasing migrant domestic worker’s vulnerability to exploitative and abusive
working conditions, the Two-Week Rule also significantly impedes their ability to access
redress mechanisms in Hong Kong -p.76

Conexiones

Palabras clave

Trafficking

Los sectores económicos

Occupations in services - Domestic work

Tipos de contenido

Análisis de políticas, Casos documentados de abuso, Iniciativas de apoyo, Estadísticas sobre el trabajo y las condiciones de vida, La política actual, Número de trabajadores migrantes, y Violación sistémica/estatal de derechos/libertades

Los grupos destinatarios

Legisladores, Conciencia Pública, y ONG / grupos comunitarios / redes de solidaridad

Relevancia geográfica

China

Idiomas

Inglés